Additional air pollution testing comes to Brockton

An air monitor station in Brockton is now testing for Ozone-1 pollution after local activists met with state officials this week.

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The Enterprise, Brockton, MA

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Posted Apr. 2, 2014 at 5:38 PM
Updated Apr 2, 2014 at 5:42 PM

Posted Apr. 2, 2014 at 5:38 PM
Updated Apr 2, 2014 at 5:42 PM

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BROCKTON - Local activists were successful in bringing another layer of air pollution testing to Brockton this week after meeting with David Cash, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner.

Members of Stop the Power, accompanied by state Rep. Michael Brady, met with Cash on Monday to try to bring testing for Ozone-1, a colorless, unstable toxic gas that is a health concern at ground level, to the air monitoring station set up at the Gilmore School.

“It went fantastic. Mr. Cash was very attentive to the needs of the residents of Brockton,” said Stop the Power member Ed Byers on the meeting.. “It couldn’t have been better.